The material of the Max Buxpan Collection consists of letters, postcards, newspaper articles, speeches, handwritten books and photos which relate to the history of the family as well as its historical and political background. The first series of the collection assembles the correspondence of Max Buxpan, his sister Paula, Hella Buxpan and other family members, who compared notes with Karl Hollik and Hedwig Herza on the family's immigration and the life after the war in addition to condolences. The second series includes other personal documents which belong to the Buxpan family, for example the memorial album (Traueralbum) of Josef Buxspan, father of Max Buxpan, or the birth certificate of Pauline (Paula) Buxpan. The third series holds poems and handwritten notes of Max Buxpan such as two handwritten books which include essays about Jewish life and Jewish questions. Most of them are Russian translations. The fourth series collects material about the First World War. There are a lot of postcards which show warfare and war crimes in Germany, Austria, Russia and Poland. Most of the artwork is satirical. The fifth series focuses on the time when Max Buxpan was a prisoner of war in Siberia. It includes newspaper articles, photographs and personal documents. The last series includes documents about the Second World War. It holds speeches of Winston Churchill from the 1940s as well as a lot of newspaper articles which discuss the time after the war and the trials of war criminals
The following individuals are mentioned in this collection:
Max Buxpan (or Buxspan according to older spelling), born in Austria, prisoner of war in Siberia 1916-1920, MD in Vienna, emigrated to the US in 1938, died in New York
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